Having been nearly suicidal at one stage trying to get my fps to a reasonable level, I have been overjoyed to have my game run 1280x1024 with everything on max incl haze and dynamic em etc. at a steady 37 fps (in replay grid start in the rain dropping to 33 fps but back to 37 fps by turn 1). My Bios where well-tuned but no overclocking. I was in heaven.
For the past 2 weeks or so I have been trying to get improved performance from F1C and I have made changes in monitor frequency. F1C has improved but graphical performance is far from perfect (compared to GP4).
This morning I set out again with Gp4 to do a few laps of Hungary. In the pits my FPs dropped to 32. Odd. Then I start off on my practice lap. I am getting 37 fps slipping to 36 here and there. This indicates (I suppose) that po is going well over 100. Then I come to the last turn into the pit straight and BAM!
I am down to 20 fps and the controls are lagging. So I continue and it seems to me, that although, after the pit straight I continue to have 37fps, the feeling of speed has gone. Everything looks slooow. At first I had thought this might be a reaction to having played F1C for so long (The feeling of being there: speed , shakes, ff, etc) might have dulled my senses. On the pit straight again Bam!
19-20 fps.
I changed my monitor frq back to 75mhz and then I had to go to work (sigh!). I will test things this evening. In the meantime, has anyone any thoughts on this phenomenon?
Larry
AMD 3000+,Epox EP-8RDA,Ram 1536mb 333 DDr, Rad 9800 pro omega 2.4.96, dx9b, Audigy, MOMO FF,winxp